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One persons trash is anothers persons treasure. Unfortunately we treat our relations with others in this manner. When we feel like someone’s trash let’s think of how many people are happy you became single. Hence you become a new treasure!

Now what about when we are single? What should we do to maintian sanity?

I know somethings that never were beneficial;Hunting– term used to find potential partners at a bar or event.
Looking for love in general has never been very profitable. The love we seek seems to just happen at the drop of a dime on a randomized day. Unpredictable in nature, but just as beautiful as nature when it blooms.Facebook trolling/scrolling- wasting most of the day trying to connect with people I never was ment to connect with.Random messages- Seriously think of how many messages girls/guys get from creepy individuals, alot. This also has not been a good investment of energy.Getting Butt Hurt- when you send this random message and she/he does not respond. Don’t be a rude and blame them for your insecurities.Naughty pictures- a warning to both genders, others will see your goodies. Girls are even starting to post the penis pictures to facebook. Best not to EVER do this.

Depression/crazy- if she/he dont respond to your messages or you have issues with how fast they respond. You need to be single. See below, how to build a lofe to be proud of. See how long your depression lasts when you accomplish some goals.

Being single gives you more time to mature as an adult and to properly get to know who you are and what you actually want in life… Both single and taken have their pros and cons. But no matter what you’re feeling on your single status, one thing remains true: you are free. This freedom seems like eternal prison sometimes, but its good for you to grow without relationship influence. Learn what you love, discover your goals and ambitions, and write down your priorities.

Tackling the world may seem like a never ending task, cause it is until you die. Get used to handling stress and trials on your own. Building this confidence up is nothing but sexy to those who pursue you in the shadows. We all have secret admirers that have been too shy to speak up. Keep that in mind when you feel like a lonely little duck. Keep pushing thru life building your empire of your dreams. Pursuing your life goals will attract the right energy you need to succeed.

Sometimes we fall in love and its nothing but a toxic relationship. Energy draining and consumed by negitive emotions. How can one succeed? Dont keep anything that does not nourish your soul, hold fast to all that does.

Build a life to be proud ofDo you play the guitar? Maybe learn so you can share.Write poetry? Don’t be scared to shareAre you a history nut? Expand your knowledge deeper.Do you volunteer? Kindness is sexy.

My point is to learn something… learn something you can teach or share with your partner.
Don’t be boring, get some hobbies.

Are you ready to date?
Do you have income?
Transportation?
Know how to love?
Know yourself?
Know your boundaries?
Are you happy being alone?
Do you need someone or want someone?

When one or more of these is lacking, chances are your better off without the distraction until you gain control of your life.

Being single is a great time to be you! So many options!

If your recently single and wondering “what the hell happened?” You or your partner were lacking. Self-healing starts at self-respect, self-reliance and self-love. You attract the energy you put out, be wise to your energy investments and don’t be self-loathing.

Self-hatred (also called self-loathing) refers to an extreme dislike or hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against oneself.

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The peace is shared with our souls. It is up to us to find where it lays. The joy that fills your heart is a clue to what is true. Never be waiting for that joy to come. See it around you and feel its energy light up your spirit. But hold faithful to its nature of peace. Find the time to nurture its blessings.

Apophyllite Gemstone

The name apophyllite is derived from the Greek ἀπόΦυλλίςο apophylliso, meaning “it flakes off”, a reference to this class’s tendency to flake apart when heated, due to water loss. Apophyllite is also used to assist in contacting and working with Guardian Angels, Spirit Guides and manifestations of the Higher Self. It allows the wearer to see the truth in all things and then act upon the moment.

They refract light in obvious rainbows, and can form “natural pyramids” when subjected to rock tumbling.

Gem elixirs can be made to bring energy to the heart chakra

Spiritual Connection

Meditation

Apophyllite is associated primarily with the third eye and crown chakras.

Increase intuition

Receive visions and insights

Regulate bodily functions

Improves your memory

Enhance one’s psychic visions

Clairvoyance

Organization

The will to take action

Helps the Body Physically

Addiction

Allergies

Asthma

Breathing

Crown-Chakra

Eyes

Fatigue

Feet

Healing

Long-Distance-Healing

Lungs

Mental-clarity

Skin

Third Eye Meditation

Metatron’s Cube Bluetooth Speaker I like to use a bluetooth speaker when getting into meditation for the first time with someone. The guided meditation is very crisp through this Metatron Bluetooth speaker

When placed on the third eye chakra, it enhances clairvoyance and mystical vision, particularly when using the natural pyramid form. As for the placement of the crystals, definitely follow your intuition. Placing Green Apophyllite at the feet and the clear at the head sounds wonderful 🙂 You may want to make some notes as you learn more in your healing practice as to what crystal works for various issues and where they were placed at the time.

Look at your Apophyllite crystal from the corner of your eye, but at the same time look past it.

This is sort of like you might do if you were day dreaming, when you lose awareness of your surroundings.

As soon as you feel that you have the conscious connection to the spiritual realm, simply allow yourself to travel where the images take you, and do not try to make sense of any of it, just go with the flow.

Sometimes it is so easy to get caught up with the little things in our lives that we forget all the good things. A gratitude journal helps to focus your thoughts on the what is good in your life.

It is important though to write down what you were told on your journey as soon as you return. Keeping a journal may assist you to keep a record of this, to track your progress.

Stress-Worry-Fear-Anxiety

Hold the gemstone in your hand when you feel stress, anxiety, worry or fear. Let the peace and love enter your body as this stone will enhance the room with it energies of love. Using this stone to do a psychic meditation may aid you with connecting with your spirit guide.

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Lie down on your back and place a folded (lengthwise) hand towel under the occiput of your head. This is the rear part of your skull that rounds out away from your neck.

Have a friend gently pull the towel straight towards them. Try to get them to hold the position for at least 3 minutes.

Repeat the exercise 2-3 times per-day

Luo Zhen Pressure Point

Luo Zhen is the name of an acupuncture/acupressure point used specifically for a stiff neck.The point is found on the back of the hand in between the two bones in the depression just past the knuckles of the pointer and middle finger.

How to use Luo Zhen for Stiff neck:

Massage the point on the opposite side of the body from the neck pain. If the right side of your neck hurts, massage the point on your left hand. You will need to massage this point by pressing into it with the tip of your finger, and make sure to use enough pressure to feel slight tenderness at the point.

Maintain that pressure while making very small circles with your pressing finger.

At the same time as you are stimulating the acupressure point, exercise the neck by rotating your head side to side. You should slowly begin to notice a slight increase in your range of motion while experiencing a decrease in pain.

Researchers from the National Weight Control Registry, a database of more than 3,000 people who have lost at least 60 pounds and kept it off for an average of 6 years, found that eating breakfast every day was a weight control strategy for 78% of the people in the registry. People who kept off weight long-term also reported eating a low-fat diet and exercising for at least an hour or more each day.

Tips on Eating a Quick and Healthy Breakfast

Pick 2-3 foods, including at least one from each of the following food groups:

Bread and grain (i.e.cereal, toast, muffin)

Milk and milk product (i.e. low-fat yogurt, low-fat milk, low-cheese)

Fruit or vegetable group (the Greens!)

Pick up portable breakfast items when at the grocery store. You should buy foods like fruit, low-fat yogurt, whole grain breakfast bars, or granola bars for those mornings when you have to eat breakfast on the go.

Replace or accompany that morning cup of coffee with a glass of orange juice or milk.

Make an omelette that is divine and HEALTHY!

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About 4 months ago is when I became addicted to one of the best practices I have found to clear my head and make the right choice. Be able to foreshadow events with accurate visions and push myself physically.

Yesterday while I was exercising, I was really pushing myself using the thought that I could harness energy from the universe. As I closed my eyes, I saw it… The energy outline of my spirit pulling my body forward. Pushing me thru the challenge of muscle failure, but they never failed. Today is a different story, sore as can be and currently stretching. But focusing on my breathing and clearing my thoughts, gave me some power 🙂

I really believe that our spirit is there for us when we call upon it. But remembering to call upon it has slipped my mind for most of my life. Lack of knowledge of what us humans are really capable of with our mind and self doubts seemed to run my life as far as I can remember. I remind myself everyday of my self worth, while building a support line of great friends that understand how to make me feel special.

Meditation on good thoughts of love and abundance were the main highlights in the beginning for me. I looked around and noticed how many people have love for me. That put me in a state of now, Right now I have abundant of love…

Pray and meditate as if you have it already and you are enjoying the fruits of it.

Finding the fine line between being walked all over or walking over someone else is a stressful long process. Learning how to help and not allow myself to become vulnerable in the process. Figuring out how much to give and how much should I receive to keep the balance of life. How to set my boundaries and display the respect to others that I expect to receive. To think about all the experiences it took to come to this survival mindset of protecting the values I hold in my heart.

I have had friends who came out of nowhere just to help me survive in my times of trial. Some of these friends have only had a few short interactions with me prior to ever assisting me. That is one of the beautiful traits that attract me to a friendship, the willing to help without any expectations. I am ever so thankful to those that extend their arms to me and forever will honor them in my heart for their love shown to me. I value the respect they showed me by making boundaries and accepting my boundaries. Establishing a clear line of communication was a key working factor in those adventures.

Respectable People

Surrounding myself with respectable people has been key in this transformation to illumination. Respectable people don’t talk badly about themselves or let others views shape who they are becoming. Taking that grain of salt people have to offer and figuring out if it fits in your moral code. Never will I do something that is below the morals I have gained thru experiencing my life. You should never have to chase true friends or true love, let them chase you a bit for a more authentic version of a friendship. Becoming knowledgeable of the sociopaths and narcissistic traits thru some studying made me very aware to the intentions of others and curing any traits I distaste. Its a really cold and dark world out here and everyone has their agenda to fill, usually just for their own benefits. I highly suggest you read my other blog on Narcissists & Sociopaths for a deeper view.

Finding friends who respect me has been a system of standards that is similar to choosing a potential mate. Looking for those red flags in the actions they do to others. I have become aware of that moment, they might need me or something I have to offer and their agenda involves keeping me happy as I pursue that agenda. Having consciously helped many to fulfil agendas, a high level of self-respect I am required to carry to be successful in these types of adventures. Being mindful of my promises and only making them if I know for a fact I can complete the task. Therefore, I look for excessive promises of incentives and measure them to reality this person is providing. Are they meeting my needs to the same standard that I provide them? Be mindful and honest when thinking about my needs being met, illusion comes when my eyes get to big and don’t notice the background music. In the end, everyone is looking to be accepted. Nothing’s wrong with it, but something is wrong if I am looking at them to tell me what I’m worth.

A Key to Self-Respect, Knowledge- Healing thru Wisdom

Challenge yourself with new experiences and information.

Finding that passion to expand my mind on a daily basis, no matter what the topic maybe. I seem to find a deep enjoyment for history and how things came to be on this planet. I sometimes find myself researching a word and the root that it stemmed from. The word “Happy” for example has a history with the Proto-Germanic, Hap- meaning to fit, or convenient. That really does not sound very happy to have something that is convenient or just fits. A great majority of the European words for “happy” at first meant “lucky.” An exception is Welsh, where the word used first meant “wise.” The term Happy ending in the literary sense was recorded first in 1756. I no longer use the word “happy” to describe my state of mind or emotions when I express myself, unless I’m at a craps table feeling lucky. I like to use the word joy c. 1200AD, “feeling of pleasure and delight;” c. 1300AD, “source of pleasure or happiness,”. I love that it is classified as a noun and happy is a adjective. The word joy as a noun brings it alive I feel being labeled as a person, place or thing. Happy seems so instant-gratification now, so striving to place things that bring me joy in my life seems a lot more permanent.

Having random knowledge such as this last paragraph has assisted drastically in attaining a level of self-respect I admire in those around me. The more you know, the more you can grow. And all that growing will empower you, making it much easier to respect yourself. I love finding other beings of light that share their perspective with me, deeply appreciate your insight and honor your courage to share. We have been born into a world that provides much intimidation to people who want to heal thru untraditional methods. Some feel others would never value their opinions and what they know. Some see themselves as not worthy or incompetent. The way I see myself is the way I’ll be. It happens every time I believe, either believe I can or believe I can’t… its my choice. If I can’t, then why I ask? Am I talented enough to find a way to succeed? Have I taken time to legitimately practice and develop skill in this craft? When I choose to take responsibility to achieve the skill and start grinding everyday at it, overtime I get it. The skills possessed in my life are extremely diversified in experience and depth, but there is nothing I haven’t been able to do thus far, unless I don’t try.

Let Go of The Control

Not all things are within your control (you cannot always control how others act or react), but what is within your control is how you treat yourself.

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”―

Theodore Roosevelt

I love that quote by Teddy, it paints a picture for me of a happy couple, Cole and Justi.

They have been together for 5 years absolutely loving and respecting each other. Best friends all throughout high school while sharing several school activities together that made solid memories for their marriage to stand strong. Cole and Justi are newly acquainted friends with a newlywed couple named Colby & Vicci. They have been seeing each other for a little over a year until Colby popped the question two months ago to Vicci.

Cole and Colby started to spend a few hours a week hanging out away from the girls. With 6 years apart in age, the two had very different perspectives to share about life. Cole being older, the more reserved planner and Colby being a driven go getter. Those two would talk about everything under the sun and share insights to so many topics, till one day. Colby makes a comment in joy about Justi in comparison to Vicci that portrayed the shallowness of their relationship. Unknowingly attacking the appearance of Justi to build up Vicci’s physical traits. The reserved Cole decided to investigate the depth of the joy portrayed thru simple questions that required Colby to focus attention on his relationship.

Do you add to each other’s lives in a positive way?

Does she inspire you to be the best version of yourself?

Are you a priority in her life?

Just a few questions in and I knew what type of relationship this was between them. Colby soon asked the same questions about my relationship with Justi. After stating all the sweet things she does to add to Cole’s life on a daily basis with no expectation. Colby felt robbed as he compared his relationship to another… Noticing all the things Vicci does not do, seeing joy now only in her physical attraction. Truly stated that “Comparison is the thief of joy.”―Theodore Roosevelt

Thanks everybody for being such a big part of these blogs. Your comments are priceless and incredibly helpful and encouraging. Please keep sending them my way and I’ll keep writing from the heart.

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As I read this, I could feel it from the heart of a challenged and accepting person. I feel the words opening several doors into my mind and help piece together more parts of the puzzle. Truly love to be able to read this blog post and share it with the world. Helped me in a few amazing ways just now… Same for you? Please leave feedback if you can expand:)

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Inspiration

Every day do something that scares you. Do something that challenges who you are, or you simply aren’t living. I decided today that I am going to start living life as a journey. Not as a destination. This world and the dreams that we hold seem to twist as years go on. I have to admit that I have been living life with this firm goal/destination that haunts me, of which I have no idea what it is. One moment it’s marriage and a family, the next a career, etc. Life isn’t supposed to be lived with the anticipation of receiving an ultimate prize. Yet, I feel as though in today’s society we are blessed with instant gratification. (Internet, cars, fast food, so forth and so on). Unfortunately, instant gratification brings impatience and misled feelings to the soul. I truly believe this.
So as my life continues with this “blessing” of instant gratification, I set my mind on a goal that shouldn’t be a goal at all. You see, instead it should be a moment in my life or a part of my journey. Not the red ribbon at the end of the race. But because I am conditioned to think that an exciting thing that took a lot of effort to get is my final hoorah, I can’t ever live on a journey. I simply hang around on an idea of destination. I cling to the potential not the actual accomplishing. The journey it took to get to my destination is what instant gratification teaches us is the most important part. We loose sight of our goals this way. We become wrapped up in the anticipation of gratification and forget to achieve.
Break it down like this. Forget any idea you ever had before and place yourself in the shoes of this thought.Your journey is now your life. Those “red ribbon” endings are now the milestones that you choose to let into your journey. Not only do you have a career, but you have anything else you once labeled as a destination. You’re reducing the length of time to accomplish happiness, and you’re increasing the amount of “destinations” you get to have in your life.
When you build something up and up sometimes it dissapoints you once you finally obtain it. I took a Pyschology class for a prerequisite a while back, and in that class we discussed how people set a level of expectation for themselves. Your inner desires and wants have to correspond with your actions. It isn’t consistent 24/7 but eventually it will match up. So, say you set a grand expectation. You finally achieved that person you longed to be! But because of that “standard” we set on ourselves in our subconscious, if you go above that marker, we will not allow ourselves to stay above long. We will go back down to the original “high standard” we had once set before. Never alloting growth. Same goes with setting it to low. You set a low standard in your subconscious, and if you do anything at all, no matter how great, you will still bring yourself right back down to the lowest of lows. “Oh it’s great that I got an A on my test, but I normally get C’s, so I might as well go back to that”. Sure, one would think that this is apart of self improvement. Setting a standard then moving it up as we continue to climb the success ladder. But how often have you tried to reinstate your subconscious with a different thought process? It’s a task to say the least. Our subconscious records all of our thoughts, exactly as we thought it, not meant it, and applies it to the behaviors you are entitled to have as a human being. We need to remove this expectation of who we are, what we can be, what we desire. The burden and stress of living up to this one thing is removed. We have now opened our mind to the idea of anything we want. Not just what we have proved we are capable of.
We must push ourselves so that we know there are no limits. Limits mean restrictions. Restrictions mean guidelines, and guidelines mean standards. We are our worse critic, which would only mean one thing. We are now taking that beautiful potential and shortening it because we have told ourselves that we just don’t have what it takes. The second you take a jump and do something you are scared of, you have officially added on to the list of “things I can do”, and you become something that exuberates confidence. Confidence leads to adrenaline. Humans feed off of the energy that develops when something good happens to us. Winning a game (success) Falling in love (happiness) The ability to be proud (a forever kind of priceless). Somehow though, we restrict ourselves. Without tackling fear, you never try anything. If you try you become standardless, because nothing can limit you.
Instead of simply challenging themselves and seeking an open mind, some people conform to a synthetic form of adrenaline release. Drugs, alcohol, addictions, selfish acts, painful words. Yes, these all will release endorphins.. But lets say that we rid our minds of instant gratification. Let’s say we want to experience the drive of live because we are proud of the journey we want to take, not the destination we dream to fulfill.
Pretened for a moment that society eliminated negative self-talk, and we all seemed to have (no longer just wish) no guide to what will be. We just traveled and explored the ability to reach and and grab that scary task, and show it who is boss. Infact, fear is no longer a factor in this. Yes, you will always have fear, we are humans and that’s how we are made. It’s just that you no longer have to make these conscious decisions to attempt something with the fear of failing. Inevitably your crazed development and focus on the anticipation of failing leads to negative self-talk. Negative self-talk leads to a standard. (need mind you, any standard you set is restricting the potential you know you have). A standard leads to accepting lack of growth. Lack of growth leads to instant gratification. From here the cycle starts all over again.
Fate and destiny… Two fine things I believe flow in this world. My belief is that fate is something that is a part of you that you cannot change, people that come and go in your life, moments and situations that surround you, and any thing else that defines those “life moments”. These I believe you cannot change. What you do with the list I mentioned is your destiny. Destiny can be altered at the last moment. It can be anything your heart desires. You pick your destiny. Fate just gives you some ground rules to work with. Instant gratification is an ugly thing sometimes. It leads you to believe that your destiny is unfixable. We justify destiny and the “destination” of our life by the outcome of fate. We fail to see that the outcome of fate relies on us. Instead of dedicating time to pushing through the moments that are hard (fate), we blame destiny. We then think that our destiny is our destination. Forgetting all the while, that the journey is what we need to have with the destination being a stepping stone in our journey. Not the end.
What is your destiny? Is it to be rich, famous, married, poor, lonely, eager, lazy? When destiny would come to my mind I would try and look forward to the future. Picturing my destiny and what exactly my life was going to end up being. I always felt as though (still sometimes do) that I am just waiting for my life to start. Mean while I don’t realize that my life began a while ago, I’m just waiting for instant gratification to deliver to me my destination. All these thoughts are common and a simple way to think. But what if, we went a little deeper… what if I stopped waiting for life to begin with the “successful stepping stones” approved by society. What if when somebody said destiny, I would picture looking BACK on my life instead of trying to piece it together based on my expectations I set of myself. Let’s look back on our life when we are grey just to find out what our destiny had been. Destiny is what defined you as a person. How your life panned out. How you handled fate. Looking into the future to discover destiny is paired so equally with living life like a destination. You set one level for yourself that limits you. Predetermined destiny will strip you of your ability to take a journey. Your mind, heart, and soul will linger on the IDEA of what or who or where you want to be. You will rob yourself of life, you sit around a wait to start living based off of what you think your destiny is.
Earlier I mentioned that you can change your destiny. In a sense this is true. Not to contradict myself, but you don’t really consciously change your destiny. You change your destiny by never having a limit on who you are. When you don’t have limits, you are trainable and open minded. This curves your personailty and sculpts you into being able to adjust to fate. Humans were born with the ability to adapt. Take this and run with it. Adapt to fate by learning from prior fate occassions. (A.K.A learning from mistakes). If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten. Maybe, just maybe, there really isn’t any karma or things that were just meant to happen for a reason. When you learn from a mistake, I truly believe that fate may test you time and time again just to make sure that your never limiting yourself to growing as a person. We aren’t meant to develop restrictions on ourselves. We are meant to challenge everything that we are day by day. We should cling to the firm foundation of love, happiness, and success. All things that we strive for and base our life off of. These things define our journey. And that journey begins by recognizing your outter actions and changing your subconscious after. Not allowing your subconscious to change your actions. Maybe your actions and subconscious battle so much that you think that your subconscious is karma. Now, here me out on this… When we are children, we have innocence. Pure hearts that mean nothing but the best. We share, smile, run, never stress, and always appreciate the little things. We never leaned on instant gratification. We simply partook on life and accepted fate with open arms because or subconscious knew nothing else. Our lack of experience with situations made us open minded and trainable. So you see since day one we established a subconscious mindset of right and wrong, good or bad, happy or sad, worth our time or not. But, unfortunately, as time goes on and we grow up, we began to interact with more people. Learn things about fate. Form opinions based on the reactions or words we experienced from the way others handled their fate. That pure layer of subconscious stablitity and foundation is now being weighted down with this self-talk that doesn’t mesh well. It stacks up building layers of feelings and ideas of who we are. It doesn’t just stay as one, because nothing is as sacred as our spirits when we were innocent. Fate strolls along everyday. But one day, fate is escorted with a situation that is tough to handle. Say we handled it poorly, then next thing you know karma turns around and “gets us back” somehow.
Once again I will say that your actions have to match your subconscious. Deep down in your subconscious, the innocence and pure foundation of what life is, is telling you that what you did was wrong. You keep telling yourself this, without even realizing it. All the while your “adult” subconscious is justifying itself to you. Bringing up more recent memories and reminding you why it was okay to act like that. Shoving instant gratification and everything that it comes with into your conscious. Eventually making your actions match your thought process, in turn, causing a negative result of “bad karma”. Because of instant gratification, we falsely pick and choose what we can change and what we cannot. We find the same adrenaline in accomplishing a hard task as we do in the drama of life. No matter what sparks your chemicals in your brain, it is and always will be the same chemical that fuels us to want different things. To want success. To have hopes. Being able to recognize this allows us to apply that energy to: doing something that scares us every day, being aware enough to change our actions and let our subconscious catch up last, being able to live a journey instead of dwelling on a destination. It allows us to take control of gratification in the smallest form, and change it into something that is rich in meaning. Recognizing that there are an unlimited amount of paths to travel down in life opens up your heart to change, journey, and accepting fate. It pushes you to handle right and wrong. It encourages you to stick to the innocent subconscious and not punish yourself for shame you may feel. Being accepting of challenges and the million of paths you can travel, will only expand you as a person. It will rid you of that expectation and standard of what you can and cannot do. If you are doubtful of what you can be and/or who you are, push yourself a little farther. Start the cycle of no limits. Start the journey and forget the destination. Lose the instant gratification and gain the desire to self-assess. Wake up and notice life has already started. It’s just waiting on you.

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When I wrote my latest book, You Are the Placebo, I set out to explore the idea that it’s possible for people to heal themselves of all sorts of conditions (even those considered incurable) without drugs or surgery — through thought alone. After all, the power of belief is so strong that drug companies routinely use double- and triple-blind, placebo-controlled studies to test new drugs because people taking placebos (inert substances like sugar pills), thinking they may be taking an active drug, often improve.

Consider the following examples from the medical literature:

A man who died not long after hearing he had incurable cancer, even though his autopsy revealed he’d been misdiagnosed
A woman whose long-term depression lifted so dramatically during an antidepressant drug trial that she was sure she was receiving the active drug, only to find she was part of the placebo group
A handful of veterans severely hobbled by osteoarthritis who regained pain-free mobility after a surgeon performed sham surgery — making small incisions in their knees and then sewing them back up without doing anything else.
Given these cases and many, many more like them, I wanted to see if I could teach people to believe in themselves instead of in something outside of themselves and get the same kind of dramatic results. If I could demystify the placebo effect by explaining how and why it works, I wondered, could people learn to consciously do it on purpose?

The answer, I found, is a resounding yes. Participants in my workshops who learn a model of self-transformation that combines the latest findings from both neuroscience and quantum physics have been able to heal themselves of a wide variety of disorders. I’ve seen conditions like fibroids, thyroid disease, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, rare degenerative bone disease, Parkinson’s disease, and even brain tumors disappear. I know that sounds too amazing to be true, but I assure you, it’s real.

In my advanced workshops, I bring in scientists who take very sophisticated measurements of brainwaves, heart rhythms, and even urine and saliva levels of certain hormones to document these changes in real time.

So how did these participants change their state of being? As I explain in my book, as long as you’re thinking the same thoughts, they’ll lead to the same choices, which cause the same behaviors, which create the same experiences, which produce the same emotions, which in turn drive the same thoughts — so that neurochemically, you stay the same. (You could say that you’re always reminding yourself of who you think you are.)

But we now know that thanks to neuroplasticity, we aren’t hardwired to think the same thoughts in the same way for the rest of our lives. We can learn to create new neural pathways and make new neural connections so that we can break the habit of being our old selves.

These changes in our brains can then lead to changes in our bodies, thanks to the relatively new science of epigenetics, which torches the old-school idea that our genes are our destiny. While you may indeed have a genetic tendency toward developing certain diseases and conditions, the latest research shows that by learning to change your neural wiring, it’s possible to turn off those undesirable genes and to signal new, healthier genes to turn on.

The key is a technique called mental rehearsal, where you imagine a desired outcome in such a way that you make your inner thoughts more real than your outer environment. If you combine a clear intention of the new future you want with an elevated emotion (such as joy and gratitude), you can give your body a taste of this future experience in the present moment.

If you make it feel real enough, your brain won’t know the difference and will fire new neurons and make new connections until it starts to look as if the event has actually taken place. In my book, I dip into a bit of quantum physics to further explain how this works. In a nutshell, all possibilities exist in this present moment, so if you choose a new future for yourself from this field of infinite possibilities, and you successfully use mental rehearsal to make it feel real enough times, it’s possible to actually observe that future into reality through making epigenetic changes in your DNA.

You literally become someone new because both your brain and your body will no longer identify with your old self. And then you’ve become your own placebo. More good news: This amazing technique can work for anyone. You don’t have to be a neuroscientist or even a spiritual master to make the seemingly impossible possible. Try it yourself and see!

To learn more, check out Dr. Joe Dispenza’s new book, You Are The Placebo.